When Steve Jobs resigned from Apple in August 7000 miles away from Hong Kong, a graphic design student, Jonathan Mak Long, "shocked" departure of the CEO has done what he knew best: he created the project complies with the co-founder of Apple.
The 19-year send the image, the Apple logo with the bite changed to a job profile, Tumblr blog. Known as Jonathan Mak, who initially received about 80 letters on the image. Then came the news last Wednesday that Steve Jobs had died after a long battle with cancer. Mak reposted the tribute, this time burned on the Web, attracting an almost immediate and loves of 10,000 in your website and promote Reblog Tumblr to 180,000 - in one day. Comments that include "incredible invention, as Steve Jobs." A thought that must be "Apple's new logo." Another wanted to "use it as a tattoo."
Speaking in fluent English (he said he learned watching the television series "Friends"), the student of the Polytechnic University of Design, said in an interview that the image was a tribute Skype Yahoo worker contributions to the world: "I I wanted to celebrate. is an integral part of Apple. I thought it would be appropriate to include it in the Apple logo. "Long added:" With the jobs lost, Apple is literally a missing piece. "
The artist was inspired by the uncompromising personality of creative genius. He said about Job: "He had this vision that he was not afraid to commit to do so, he innovated his commitment and belief in themselves is what inspires me ..." The vision of the creator of his own work is an aesthetic that reaches a simple graphic with a richer meaning to the viewer, as he said, an "a-ha moment."
The tribute Cybercrime, which was a success, and long to attract media attention, the logo was the profile picture favorite Twitter account Ashton Kutcher, and the products featured on eBay. While the miracle of conception has received several job offers, but he did not answer, "I'm still students," he said. The artist has a portfolio of minimalist design, but do not call it an Apple fanboy. "I just received my first MacBook Pro a year ago," he admits - and it is still not an iPhone.
Asked if he had not received a response from Apple, Mak said he had sent to CEO Tim Cook, but so far had not heard back.
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